Nagoya Mayor Kawamura

Nagoya Mayor Kawamura

TOKYO, Japan - Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura holds a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on Feb. 22, 2012. Kawamura said that no incident in which hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered in Nanjing, China, in 1937 took place, defending his earlier remarks in which he doubted the Japanese military's massacre and rape of civilians there.

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